I'm sure that there was a time in the history of any democracy when people became politicians because they wanted to work for the good of the country. Whatever people say about Churchill, he was a patriot in the best sense of the term. He certainly didn't make money out of it. Most of the time he was out of office he survived on what he made from his writing. (Don't forget he won the Nobel Prize for Literature). It seems as if that at some point in history, politicians started to put themselves before country.
I'm not sure when that point was, but I think I'll give it a thought.
Also, Winston Churchill, when he was PM, could walk to work through the streets of London with little or no security. Today, leaders can't take a leak without having a bunch of special forces troops keeping an eye out for them. I wonder why
